A Competent Doctor Can Cure Everything - Chapter 448



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Lunar New Year holiday duty (3)

We were having a friendly conversation at the dinner table.

A second call came from Shim Ji-seop.

I felt something ominous and quickly moved to the living room.

The senior’s notification that followed was surprising.

– Dr. Seon-i Jun. I’m sorry to keep calling you. Patient Sergei Ivanov is being transferred to the emergency room of another hospital.

I swept my bangs back absurdly.

“Yes? Where are you going during the Lunar New Year holiday, leaving our hospital’s ER (emergency room) behind?”

– I got cut off by the ER. They said they couldn’t afford to take a patient like this, so they told me to go to another hospital.

“So, is there a place that will accept me?”

– I should check the emergency contact list and make a call now. But before that, I think I need to convince the patient first. He has no intention of leaving his daughter.

This is a mountain beyond a mountain.

He asked, rubbing his throbbing temples.

“Is the patient… uncooperative?”

– The patient’s daughter is also currently experiencing a fever and pain. The patient is asking that her daughter be taken to the emergency room first, since she is not feeling well. I wonder if she will try to go to another hospital’s emergency room during this time.

As the situation became more and more clear, my anger began to build up.

… This is really not true.

I totally understand that the emergency room is busy.

But isn’t it too much to throw a patient from the same hospital to another hospital when all that would have been needed was a single Brain-CT order?

‘What if Sergei really has an emergency?’

No matter how hard Shim Ji-seop tried to contact her and explain the situation,

It’s obvious that other hospital emergency rooms will also be busy and refuse to accept you.

Why would they insist on taking over patients from a large hospital like Hanbit University Hospital that has an emergency room?

But what if the patient misses the golden time while spinning the wheel?

After gathering my thoughts, I slowly opened my mouth.

“Professor Shim Ji-seop… .”

– hmm?

“Do you think that patient needs an emergency?”

– yes.

A clear answer came back without hesitation.

Then I don’t have to hesitate either.

I took action right away.

“I’ll go to the hospital right now. I’ll see you in the emergency room later.”

As I end the call and hurriedly grab my car keys and coat, the people in the kitchen are startled.

“Oh my, Mr. Seon-i-jun. Where are you going now?”

“Hey, where are you going?”

“Jun-ah. Where are you going at this hour?”

I answered, walking briskly toward the front door.

“I think I need to go to the hospital because I have an emergency.”

I haven’t examined Sergei directly yet, nor have I seen the future through his glasses.

I trust Shim Ji-seop’s judgment.

I don’t know about anything else, but when it comes to work, that guy isn’t the type of person to talk nonsense.

* * *

Hanbit University Hospital emergency room.

The nurses wiped away their sweat with all the commotion as background music.

“Oh my, this is hell.”

“So… .”

Even though it was busy on a regular basis, the emergency room during the Lunar New Year holiday was truly hell.

Patients who are tired of waiting become irritable.

The emergency room staff were running around frantically.

Jin-su Kim, an EM (emergency medicine) fellow, was also on high alert.

“Teacher Jinsoo!”

At the sound of the nurse calling, Jin-su Kim turned his gaze from the EMR (electronic chart) he was looking at.

“Patients have come down from the Oriental medicine ward. What should we do?”

“… ‘patients’?”

I clearly told only girls to come down?

Kim Jin-su, who was looking at the emergency room entrance with annoyance, was startled.

‘The patient was a foreigner?’

I naturally assumed you were Korean.

White… I didn’t expect a noticeably large man and a blonde girl to show up.

The man was able to walk on his own.

The girl seemed to be the man’s daughter, as she was held in his arms.

‘That guy looks somehow familiar?’

Are you famous?

Kim Jin-su, who had been squinting his eyes and examining Sergei, soon gave up his thoughts.

Hey, if a celebrity was really hospitalized, word would have spread throughout the hospital by now.

At that moment, one of the Oriental medicine doctors on duty next to the patients opened his mouth.

“Doctor Kim Jin-su? I came from the Oriental Medicine Ward.”

There are three people on duty in total.

Judging from the atmosphere, the person with Shim Ji-seop written on the name tag is likely a resident.

The guy fidgeting and yapping next to me must be an intern.

Your name is… Saetae-ryong? That’s an unusual name.

And finally, the bespectacled, sports-haired male trainee.

‘Oh, Kang Woo-shin? Do you know who he is?’

He is the younger brother of his close PS (plastic surgery) fellow Kang Woo-seong.

You will become the youngest child of the Royal Family of Hanbit University Hospital.

Kim Jin-su quickly assessed the situation and approached Shim Ji-seop.

His dissatisfaction was clearly expressed in his tone and facial expression.

“Look here. What the hell are you doing? Are you just going to barge into the emergency room? I clearly said I would only take girls.”

I was planning on accepting the girl anyway.

It was also a request from Hanbit University Royal.

The girl was not technically an inpatient in the ward, so her permission to visit the emergency room was not essential.

Then, a resident named Shim Ji-seop makes a request quietly.

“This man has come down as your daughter’s guardian. While you’re here, I would appreciate it if you could prescribe a test.”

Kim Jin-su did not respond and simply turned his back on Shim Ji-seop.

Then he asked Kang Woo-shin a question.

“You said you were Teacher Kang Woo-shin, right? What were the girl’s symptoms?”

“Uh, that’s….”

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Kang Woo-shin explains his examination findings while watching Sim Ji-seop’s expression as he is blatantly ignored.

When Kim Jin-su looked into it for himself, it seemed that there was indeed a problem with the girl.

but.

‘I don’t think this is the emergency room. Do you have simple enteritis?’

But I grumbled like that inside.

Since it was the words of Kang Woo-shin, a member of the royal family, I couldn’t ignore it, even just to see the faces of this friend’s family.

Kim Jin-su raised his voice and spoke to the nurse.

“I’ll send the girl for an abdominal CT scan.”

Kang Woo-shin and the nurse take the girl to the CT room.

And then Kim Jin-su also tries to get out.

Shim Ji-seop grabbed his arm.

“Please take a look at this patient. He said he got hit in the head during a sparring match.”

“Ha… I’m really busy, really.”

Kim Jin-su complained, but eventually he took out the penlight.

It was a bit unsettling that he got hit on the head, of all places.

‘Are your pupils okay?’

After checking the man’s eyes, I asked him a few questions.

The man answered questions quickly.

He didn’t appear drowsy or confused, like someone with a brain disorder.

“Intern teacher. This foreign patient, please check the MMT* and GCS** as well.”

“yes!”

(*MMT: Manual Muscle Test, manual muscle strength test. This can be used to evaluate the prognosis of neurological diseases.)

(**GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale. A neurological evaluation method for patients with head trauma.)

I had an emergency room intern do some other tests.

“Everything is normal. You got full marks.”

All is normal, and it is perfectly normal.

After hearing the intern’s report, Jin-su Kim looked Ji-seop up and down and the corners of his mouth turned up.

“Sim Ji-seop? You’re in your third year of Oriental Medicine Rehabilitation?”

“… But.”

“Look at this. Can’t you see that the patient’s pupillary reflexes, GCS score, and state of consciousness are all normal? Tsk, this is why Oriental medicine doctors.”

Kim Jin-su decided to start spitting out harsh words.

Originally, he was someone who ignored doctors of Oriental medicine, saying they were not medical professionals.

I was even more irritated than usual because I was wasting time while I was busy.

Moreover, now that we have the sword called ‘Prescription for Imaging Tests’ in our hands.

The Oriental medicine interns were the perfect people for Jin-su Kim to relieve his stress.

“Ah~, is it possible that you don’t know how to read this because it’s not in the Donguibogam?”

“!!”

However, Shim Ji-seop maintains his composure.

When his senior is brutally beaten in front of him, an intern in the Oriental medicine department named Saetaryong blushes.

Kim Jin-su chuckled.

“Hey, you’re an intern in Oriental medicine? Are you going up to residency now? Did you see that senior? You’ve only been training for three years, and you won’t even know if it’s an emergency or not. Go back to studying and get into medical school right now. Don’t waste time.”

“What, what now…!”

Saetaryong’s chest was pounding as if he had been insulted.

It was at that time that Shim Ji-seop was glaring at Kim Jin-su coldly, as if he was going to freeze him to death with just his eyes.

“Ah, I see. Emergency medicine doctors are different. They diagnose emergency patients without imaging tests.”

Someone’s voice cut through the tense air.

The heads of the people who were confronting each other suddenly turned.

A tall man with a cold expression was walking towards Kim Jin-su.

“But why were you like that during your residency?”

“What are you?”

Kim Jin-su asked in a ridiculous manner.

The intruder showed no intention of keeping his mouth shut.

“Sim Ji-ah. At that time, she was brought here with a trauma, but the chest X-ray showed no abnormalities and she was sent home. However, the child had a fractured rib, and the broken rib pierced her lung, causing a traumatic pneumothorax. After that, the child suffered from recurrent pneumothorax for a while. Who was the doctor who diagnosed her at that time?”

“… … !”

“You don’t remember, do you? And who was that girl’s guardian at the time?”

As Kim Jin-su took a step back in embarrassment, the intruder smiled coldly.

“Oh, my. Our senior, Shim Ji-seop, personally left a detailed record of the incident in the EMR. It seems you’ve already forgotten that. It was something the patient’s family will never forget.”

“Wait a minute. Then back then… that damn guardian… .”

Seon I-jun responded coldly to Kim Jin-su’s muttering.

“And if you don’t want to hear any bullshit this time, then do it properly.”

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“Back then… Back then I had less experience than I do now… But who are you to suddenly butt in?”

Kim Jin-su raises his voice and swears at me.

Before I knew it, I was speaking informally.

I felt people gossiping around and paying attention to us.

“I am Seon-i Jun, a first-year student in the Department of Oriental Rehabilitation.”

“Seonjun? Ah… Isn’t that the kid who makes a lot of noise inside and outside the hospital? Hey! If you have eyes, take a look. Does this patient look unconscious? Does he look like a brain damaged patient?”

As things got bigger, Shim Ji-seop grabbed my arm and whispered.

“Dr. Seonjun, let’s just go. That guy will never give up. It’ll be faster to just contact the emergency room of another hospital and transfer the patient.”

But I just shook off my senior’s arm.

“No. I’m not finished talking.”

I haven’t been able to treat Sergei directly yet.

So, I didn’t see the patient’s future.

For me, it is the experience I personally gained while working as a team doctor.

And I have decades of clinical experience that I gained from consulting with Professor Yeon Jae-wook.

‘I’ve been guessing all the way here.’

If my guess is correct, Sergei is in trouble now.

It may not be a common illness, but an emergency disease.

I stared at the other person’s name tag and spoke clearly and concisely.

“So, EM Fellow Kim Jin-su is now diagnosing this patient as completely normal?”

When his title was officially called, Kim Jin-su flinched for a moment, but soon stubbornly raised his chin.

“Okay. So don’t interrupt the treatment and get out quickly.”

“Fellow Jin-su Kim, you don’t have any experience as a team doctor, right?”

“… … ? Why is that?”

“I guess there isn’t any.”

“This kid is so cocky! You’ve made a name for yourself as a team doctor, right? But how many trauma patients have I seen in the emergency room? Does it matter whether the patient got hurt while exercising or not?”

He spoke bluntly to Kim Jin-su, who was shouting while revealing his teeth.

“It’s important. How the patient got hurt. And the bradycardia (slow heartbeat) that you dismissed as nothing serious is an important clue.”

“?!”

I continued speaking, feeling the many eyes on me.

“This patient may have a traumatic brain hemorrhage.”

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